Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Eternity

    “azaliyya”

    idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    another life · azalīyah · eternity · everlasting · this life · أزلية · ازلية · دائمي · سرمدية

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The life to come“eternity”1 mention

    De legendis gentilium libris (Greek)

    To this life the sacred writings lead us, schooling us through mysteries.
    de legendis gentilium libris

    in the texts

    De legendis gentilium librisLate Antiquity · Greek

    The future, eternal life that the passage holds up as incomparably more valuable than present existence.

    To this life the sacred writings lead us, schooling us through mysteries.
    de legendis gentilium libris
    Yet by saying this much I might perhaps show you sufficiently that, if one were to gather in his thought the whole happiness of mankind from the time men have existed, and bring it together into one, he would find it not equal even to the smallest fraction of those goods, but that the sum of all things fair here falls further short, in worth, of the least of those, than a shadow and a dream fall short of the truth.
    de legendis gentilium libris
    but we press onward in our hopes to something further off, and do all that we do for the furnishing of another life.
    de legendis gentilium libris

    Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasadMedieval · Arabic

    Beginninglessness, predicated in the passage of prime matter, of the celestial spheres and their motion, of the atoms and the limitless, and, by the theologians, only of the divine power that originates matter.

    Plato (1) built the foundation of his doctrine on the coming-to-be of the world upon the eternity (*azalīyah*) of an original matter, which he expresses as the unformed element, or first prime matter (*hayūlā*) (2):
    ch. 2 · printed page 10
    And Ibn Rushd buttressed the eternity of matter in respect of species, and its origination in respect of form, with verses from the glorious Book, and sought thereby to deny real origination, that is, the emergence of a thing out of sheer nothingness — as in His words, exalted be He:
    ch. 3 · printed page 18
    their doctrine is the origination of matter by a real origination — that is, matter is, for them, brought out of sheer nothingness by a hidden eternal power whose secret has not been disclosed to this day.
    ch. 3 · printed page 19